8: Discover Science Center - The Adventures of Mr. Potato Head The kids got to make their own Potato Head, meet Mr. Potato Head, and many other activities such as making smoke rings, feeling hurricane-force winds and laying on a bed of nails.

39: Ainsley had fun on Pier 39! | Center photo: Eating a VERY expensive strawberry purchased at the Pier.

40: Lombard Street- the Crookedest Street in the World! Top Right: View of Coit Tower from the top of Lombard Street. Opposite Page: Cable Car Museum This is where the cables for the cable cars originate.

42: The Exploratorium at the Palace of the Arts This was like a huge Discovery Science Center - black magnetic sand, centrifugal force, air flow, and bubbles were just a few of the hands-on stations the kids enjoyed. | The Exploratorium is where we were introduced to plush microbes. This one on the right is a streptococcus microbe.

44: Our last stop in San Francisco was the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory. We got to see how fortune cookies were made and even bought a bag. Bottom Left: Outside the Sir Francis Drake Hotel where we stayed.

45: Disneyland August We spent our time at California Adventure watching the Phineas & Ferb dance party and getting our Senior Wilderness Scout badges at the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail.

46: Austin went to basketball camp for a week. He had a great time! | Opposite Page: While Austin was at basketball camp, Ainsley attended "craft camp" at home.

48: Austin and Hershey (after Hershey's cancer surgery)

49: Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific - August 19th | Top Left going Clockwise: Bat ray; at the ray touch pool; feeding lorikeets.

58: Top: Fawns at the cabin. Middle: Ainsley hugs Leila (Mammoth), Hershey relaxes at the cabin, Austin plays games on the iPad. Bottom: Austin hugs Buffy (Mammoth). | Our final week of summer was spent up in the Eastern Sierras.